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Style Sheets

Whether you’re an editor or a writer, stylesheets are your absolute best friend. Create them, use them, keep them. What is a stylesheet? Well, you’ve probably at least heard of or at best worked with...

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How to Critique Others’ Writing

Today’s blog post is by my esteemed colleague and friend, Carter Jefferson. The number one rule for critiques is derived from one you may have heard before: Critique as you would be critiqued. You...

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Using Style Guides—for Writers

You’ve heard of them; perhaps you’ve used them. The Chicago Manual of Style. The Associated Press Stylebook. The MLA Style Manual. The web style guide. Even the source of this blog’s title, The...

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When Do You Submit Work to a Critique Group?

While writing itself is a singularly solitary undertaking, becoming a good—if not a great—writer is not. I say this to students, to clients, in fact to anyone who reads anything I post: if you want to...

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